As part of a spruce-up, Admiral Taverns recently removed the old sign at The Eight Bells in Canterbury, which featured a maiden with eight Canterbury bells, the flowers the historic pub is named after.
He added that he was relieved the pub’s long-serving landlady Kim Truelove still has the old sign, whose design is thought to stem back to 1908, when The Eight Bells was a tied house within the estate of Canterbury’s Ash’s Dane John Brewery.
‘It’s a schoolboy error,’ Kent pub history expert, Rory Kehoe, told Kent Online, ‘because the fact is that Bell Harry only houses one bell, which it is named after, not eight.
They then replaced it with a sign featuring eight church bells hanging in Canterbury Cathedral’s Bell Harry Tower.
He said the cathedral’s main ring of 14 bells is hung in the SW (Oxford) Tower, with the other six bells located in the NW (Arundel) Tower.
